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Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

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2mo ago

Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

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2mo ago

Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

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2mo ago

Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

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- Now that's some high quality P-N-G
  
  Only the finest pixels for the Lemmy
Biden said many, many times over decades that he is a Zionist. Zionists don't end Zionism. It was an obvious lie.
Perhaps the most damning statement came from former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog, who said, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”
- And Netanyahu still treated Biden like his little bitch
Arguing about who said what at this stage is pointless. Did Biden halt arms sales, or did he double down on sending them? If you are trying to stop a genocide you don't send thousands of tons of weapons to a genocidal maniac
"Tirelessly working for a ceasefire!"
They never lifted a finger. Remind liberals of this constantly.
- They'll still defend it, somehow.
  
  They still do.
  The nice thing about being on lemmy is that these morons get shredded even in the .world community when they roll in with the "ThIs iS wHaT yOu gEt FOr vOTiNg tRuMp" as if Biden didn't just full send a 15 month long destruction and killing of Gaza.
Trump may destroy America, but Biden was the one who enabled it. Fuck that guy. Bernie is who we needed, and what we got was a piece of shit Democrat.
- It's not just Biden. A lot of the legal tools Trump is using were put in place under Clinton.
- Bernie is just a little nicer, he backed Biden when it mattered.
  
  Because Bernie knew the system is rigged against him and thus allowed neoliberals like Biden to have their way. Now that the DNC lost pathetically to an orange man, and the DNC leadership is enabling fascism, I don't hear "vote blue no matter who" nonsense anymore. And Bernie and AOC have the last laugh and "told you so" moment to the DNC. Their tours are gathering record number crowds since Obama's 2008 campaign.
But it's the RePuBliCaNs guys not, the Democrats.
- Let's be honest, neither is perfect, but only one party is gutting all the parts of government that actually help anyone.
  There's a difference between being two faced with foreign policy and actively breaking the machinery that let's your own government function.
  
  "I'm morally superior. I enable genocide with your money, but if you vote for me I'll at least try to make you feel good about it."
As far as I can read from the report, one staffer quit as a result of a misleading report written by... not the white house, and the others lamented that Netanyahu was deliberately obstructing negotiations. To say that that equates to lying about working towards a ceasefire seems to be misleading at the least.
- Maybe if that were the only proof, but we all know about all the aid, weapons, bombs, and jets sent to Israel during this time. It's not as if this report exists in a vacuum.
  
  And we also know about the aid that was sent to Gaza against the protests of Israel. We also know about the majority of obstruction coming from Netanyahu. I'm not saying they did a great job, but to say that they were outright lying about even trying to stop it is disingenuous, and seems pretty clearly a way to detract from the current situation.
- The article links to a video where Harris states: "the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done." here.
  
  And where is the evidence to refute that? In the article, every complaint from the staffers that were published refer to Netanyahu being the one holding shit up. Transcribe where the staffers said Biden wasn't working around the clock. It's not there.
- It's not the smoking gun like the title claims, but it is another piece of evidence in the pile.
  
  While it is a piece of evidence, there is nothing concrete to support it leading to: Biden and White House lied about cease fire efforts.
  It could also be used to say: Biden and White House could have applied more pressure ... if they wanted to lose influence in the negotiations.
- The person in charge of the state department is the Secretary of State (Antony Blinken). Which is a stretch to say that it comes directly from Biden or the White House since it is written by a branch department. It comes from the state department. The memo declaring that they had to publish that information came from Biden, but again the response that you're livid at was written by the state department. Notice how the only people who were targeted in the article were people who didn't publish that bullshit? Whoever wrote the report is clearly disingenuous but to directly tie that to their superiors is not how that works. You need actual evidence and so far all I have seen is hearsay.
  The video of Harris saying that her and Biden are doing all they can is also probably overplaying it a bit, but again the only evidence in that article is that other staffers were complaining about Netanyahu being the problem.
  How does that translate into "Biden lied about doing everything and oh yeah let's throw a hit piece on AOC" and finish the article off on that note with also no evidence beyond hearsay?

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